Fans will be given the chance to vote on the award after the world governing body’s association with the Ballon d’Or ended earlier this year.

The Best Fifa Men’s Player is one of eight prizes that will be handed out at the Best Fifa Football Awards.

The votes of the captains and head coaches of all of the world’s national teams will make up 50% of the result, with the other half split between an online public ballot and votes from more than 200 media representatives around the world.

A three-man shortlist will be confirmed on 2 December.

Kante, who left Premier League winners Leicester for Chelsea in the summer, and Arsenal’s Sanchez and Ozil did not feature on the separate Ballon d’Or shortlist announced in October.

Meanwhile, Tottenham and France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris did not make the Fifa shortlist having been nominated for the Ballon d’Or.